Stock compensation plans are generous. Managers push you to develop to your full potential and beyond and will support you. Very family like culture and if you make or exceed their minimum requirements when you first come on board, you do have a real opportunity for success. Amazon deeply appreciates anyone with solid leadership abilities. They aggressively seek to recruit military personnel and will take seriously any genuine recommendations for improvement even from their lowest level associates.

Cons

There can be a lot of hard work with little time to do it in. Work life balance can be very challenging. Amazon practices a lean culture but it is at times a little too lean to the point where resources are not available achieve goals. They also focus a lot of relocation so if you really want to go far in the company, don't expect to settle down in one geographical area for many years.

Advice to Management

Keep doing what you are doing while still recognizing that at the end of the day family is what life is all about.

Did you know that at Amazon, we play a modified version of Broomball at our annual company picnic? Our homegrown variant includes playing on a grass field, using a larger rubber ‘exercise ball,’ and having goal lines instead of nets. How’s that for peculiar? 2015's Broomball Champs for the 4th year in a row: The Mighty Ducts.

Amazon.com update

4 days ago

We got the chance to hear from one of our summer interns, Samuel Hoskins (age 21). Samuel is from Little Rock, Arkansas but attends Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He has just concluded his 10 week internship with us last week, thank you for spending your summer with us Sam! Visit this page to see the interview: http://glassdoor.com/slink.htm?key=vIKQX